The Evidence is Clear: Masks Don’t Do Anything.
Kit Knightly
We’re being hit with the “Super Flu” (allegedly), and that means everyone wants us to wear masks again.
We went over this (a lot) in 2020. Then we went over it again in 2023. Masks don’t work, they never worked, and – prior to 2020 – the academic literature was very clear on this.
In a 2016 literature review, infection control expert Dr John Hardie found [emphasis added]:
Between 2004 and 2016 at least a dozen research or review articles have been published on the inadequacies of face masks. All agree that the poor facial fit and limited filtration characteristics of face masks make them unable to prevent the wearer inhaling airborne particles. In their well-referenced 2011 article on respiratory protection for healthcare workers, Drs. Harriman and Brosseau conclude that, “facemasks will not protect against the inhalation of aerosols.”
[…]
Health care workers have long relied heavily on surgical masks to provide protection against influenza and other infections. Yet there are no convincing scientific data that support the effectiveness of masks for respiratory protection.
[…]
It should be concluded from these and similar studies that the filter material of face masks does not retain or filter out viruses
That study was removed from the website of the Journal of Oral Health in July 2020, because it was “no longer relevant in our current climate”. Which is perfectly normal, I’m sure.
Another study, conducted in 2019 and published in May 2020, concluded:
Disposable medical masks are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids. There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.
In 2023, the Cochrane Report by Jefferson et al. found:
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks […] Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks…
Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
None of this is new information; we’ve published it all before, but if they keep pitching the same lies, we’ll just have to keep batting with the same facts.
When it comes to preventing disease, masks are not effective. They never worked. The science backs this up. This is neither an ideological position nor a moral position. It is simply a rational, fact-based position.
Anyone saying otherwise is misinformed, ideologically captured, willfully dishonest or some combination of all three.
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Evidence during all times shows us that masks can make you rich = it works!
There was a reason why masks was invented yes? We did NOT invent masks out of nothing or for nothing. Masks works to the benefit of its owner. It is that simple man!
The Covid propaganda worked on many millions of people – and they still believe it. Most people are in information bubbles. They will never see any countervailing view.
“Masks are effective at prohibiting the transmission of viruses.”
Yeah. And shopping carts are perfect for transporting sand.
They are worn in surgery because of bacteria, not viruses. When you have someone’s flesh opened up and the innards exposed to the air, the body has little to no defenses to protect itself. You’re not supposed to have your body cavity sliced open. As far as the body is concerned, that called “being stabbed.”
But there’s no evidence that this is effective, with around 20% of surgeons wearing them in order to “respect tradition”!
“Wearing a face mask during surgery neither increases nor decreases the number of wound infections occurring after surgery. The review concluded that there is no clear evidence that wearing disposable face masks affects the likelihood of wound infections developing after surgery.” (Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery)
Masks during surgery prevents the surgeon’s drool from dripping into the incision, and to stop fluids from the patient squirting into the surgeon’s mouth.
Everybody knows that surgeons drool all the time. Therefore regulators watching out for our safety require 100% compliance.
We have reams of actual data that shows masks worked…they weren’t a silver bullet that stopped Covid but masking definitely slowed spread and bought time to develop the safe and effective vaccines. So Hawaii has the lowest Covid death rate even though everyone ended up getting Covid because Hawaii implemented the most mitigation measures…and the largest state that implemented the fewest mitigation measures in 2020 is Arizona that has the highest Covid death rate.
I’m afraid ‘we’ do not. As bonkers as it sounds there are no trials showing wearing face coverings have any impact on respiratory infection rates. A2
Darn right, even for those believing in the flying virus theory, masks are ineffective at preventing “infection” from another person, since virus particles measure about 5 to 300 nanometers (nm), while the gaps in the material of face masks measure around 55,000 nanometres across. Not to mention that a mask does not seal off the face from the surrounding air, unless you use duct tape.
Enough studies were conducted in hospital setting, long before the Plandemic era, to see whether mask wearing by staff members would lower the annual flu “outbreaks”, for example. They did not. In fact, healthcare workers wearing masks had significantly higher rates of influenza-like illness after four weeks of continuous on-the-job use, when compared to controls.
Mask wearing impairs the immune system: Surgeons have been found to have lower oxygen saturation after surgeries (wearing masks) even as short as 30 minutes. Lower oxygen intake translates into poor immunity, amongst other factors detrimental to health.
I remember during the plandemic days reading somewhere that masks lower oxygen intake by 20% increasing the risk of getting cancer. Interesting studies in hospitals, especially as the oxygen levels can drop after just 30 minutes. It should be patently obvious though that if you cover your nose and mouth, it’s going to affect your oxygen intake and interfere with the gas exchange and the exhalation of carbon dioxide.
Try telling that to them,
They believe they have a force field around them like allah is to islamic
lost the plotlot.The COVID variants Delta and Omicron are together an Anagram for meDia cOntrol.
https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/remarkable-holocaust-nonsense-73
A showdown between Slavic superhumans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_horsing
In Finland’s wild race, the wife-carry thrill,
A man hauls his bride like a sack o’er the hill.
She’s his lifelong load, a flour bag so fine,
Draped ’round his neck in the ultimate grind!
But hark! The emancipated dame takes flight,
Burning her bra in the dead of the night.
She preaches her freedom, her power unchained,
Yet begs for a lift when the mud’s knee-deep stained.
Oh, liberated lady, so fierce and so bold,
You shatter the chains, but still need to be toted!
From altar to obstacle, forever his weight,
The “equal” man’s burden—ain’t life just great?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife-carrying
Thumbs up for Finland.
Was the Wife Carrying carried in ‘The Guardian”?
Can someone comment on this then? Seems there are opposing reviews: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23
It’s a meta-analysis which seeks as its premise, among other things, to question the current ‘gold standard’ of RCTs (randomised controlled trials) as scientific evidence, advocating we throw the net open to wider sources of evidence. It was published post-covid, and basically acknowledges the lack of concrete evidence and the unusual circumstances behind masking, as follows (my bold):
This post-2020 paper could easily read as an attempt to save face by inviting us to ignore practical, evidence-based scientific studies (RCTs) in favour of more esoteric evidence, in order to help ‘policymakers’ in future…
However, we mustn’t forget that, as a hard line, either something can be demonstrated to occur irl, in which case we should strive to explain ‘why’ it occurs, or it can’t. In the case of the wording in this paper, and based on my personal knowledge of existing RCT studies, it would appear this paper is acknowledging that practical evidence of masks working to prevent respiratory infections is lacking, however, as the paper appears to assert, this doesn’t mean they DON’T work, depending on one’s philosophical bent, and therefore we can still proceed as if they might and conduct meta-analyses arguing the case.
This appears to be, at best, a hypothetical exercise and, at worst, a deliberate and surreal attempt to blur fact and fiction.
In all honesty, I think randomised controlled trials are the only sane, logical way to test the efficacy of masking. There have been many meta-analyses post-2020 attempting to blur these physical lines and fudge this issue however, in my humble opinion, this dialling back of the importance of RCT studies (empirical evidence) is at the root of the Orwellian nature of our post-covid world.
A2
The mask-ists are back again, eh? It’s a constant battle against the idiocy.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2023/05/20/m-is-for-masks/
Covid propaganda lives on. Even in the modern era.
There being woke types today within Churches that insist on no dipping of the wafer in the wine chalice. One must dip one’s mouth instead to avoid impurity.
Clearly illogical. As if putting one’s mouth in a cup shared with multiple others were somehow physically purer than dipping the edge of a piece of an untouched piece of bread in a cup and moving on (which incidentally is more in line with the New Testament model)
Logic never being part of the raison d’etre for most ‘appropriate’ actions it would seem
I think that was pretty obvious at the time, and in the UK, it was noticeable that the majority of people didn’t wear masks until they became compulsory – even at the height of the scare in early 2020 they weren’t. These days, I was on a crowded bus today and no one was wearing a mask, and when I was on a train during the week, only the guy sitting in front of me was wearing a mask of the whole carriage (nothing personal, as far as I am aware!).
The wearing of a mask was always “virtue signaling,” like wearing a yarmulke, a cross, or some t-shirt with a corporate logo. I was always a bit funny to see someone driving in a car alone with all the windows up and wearing a mask. Or someone jogging through the woods wearing a mask. They are all only telling other people — “see, I’m a good citizen. I obey the orders. I love Big Brother.”
During Covid, I never wore a mask and I did not get sick. As Kerry Mullis, inventor of the PCR test said over and over, we are al swimming in an atmosphere of viruses. Almost any virus can be found in anyone’s body if you replicate the PCR test often enough. I have no doubt there were Covid viruses in my body all of the time. Fortunately, my immune system was good enough to make short work of them.
You know what they call someone who wears a mask? A hypocrite! It’s a curse word for the Lord in the Bible. Funny, huh?
On this mountain God will remove the veil of grief covering all people and the mask covering all nations” (Isaiah 25:6–7 GWN).
“They wear the masks and ascribe powers to the mask that don’t exist. Even the politicians who mandate the mask don’t believe in it. And as soon as they think the cameras are turned off, they remove the mask.”
After citing Jewish scholars who discuss Isaiah’s view of the last days, Rabbi Weissman writes,
“The prophet stated that one of the identifying characteristics of the forces that will go to war to prevent the arrival of the Messiah is that they will be wearing masks.
This is the simple literary reading of the Book of Isaiah.”
Wasn’t it the messiah that taught us to love thy neighbour?
Are we in danger of possibly missing the point here? This isn’t the lord of the rings, you know, this is real life and there are barely ever ‘goodies’ and ‘baddies’, in my experience.
Is this a fair perspective to flag up to keep things balanced (moderate) around here? Constructive reader feedback always welcome of course! A2
Not Safe, Not Effective — 376 Ways That Face Masks Are Known To Harm The Wearer
They want you dead…please obey and show your solidarity. Thank you.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/01/allan-stevo/not-safe-not-effective-376-ways-that-face-masks-are-known-to-harm-the-wearer/
Well, masks do perform a vital social role.
Their primary role being to stop people from otherwise breathing normally. To the extent that people prefer to re-breathe their own CO2 rather than the otherwise plentiful oxygen in the atmosphere.
In that sense, they have a significant social function. Most notably on the subject’s deterioration of health as consequence of wearing one for long periods.
Meanwhile Orange Utang, idiot Golem and servant of the disgusting angloZionaZi empire of shit is doing his damndest to keep the spotlight from those Mossad Epstein kiddy porn clips. Will he have to blow the planet to save his dirty orange a$$ not to mention deadbeat bankrupt $lumville? Is Randy Andy a pedovore?
Release (all) the Epstein Mossad blackmail files…all of them and not just random snap shots of evil pedovores at play!
There’s nothing to see, it’s all a convenient distraction, it would be out there by now if there was anything of real interest. Forget the “Epstein” photos and focus on what really matters.
It’s happening.
The ward nurse who goes to the same Pilates classes as I do told us masks must be worn in certain parts of the hospital where she works.
YOU are the disease; their covaid$ death squirt the cure and by submitting to their filthy snout diper and obediently destroying your health with their “oxygen reduction therapy” is just proof that they own you until you croak. However, the next plandemic caper they pull will require bodies strewn on the street and lots of them to get the sheeple to buy into the plague garbage this time round. Even triple covaid$ squirted sheeple eventually wise up to the rabid dogs down on Rancho Goyim.
Onward to the long overdue and much deserved co££ap$€ as the hustler shell game finally becomes obvious even to the gullible, triple covaids squirted “survivors” of the last mind fuck the
kakistocracy pulled on their mutton.
Flush that worthless toilet paper while you still can!
Stock up on Au, Ag and beaucoup Pb before the fecal matter hits the proverbial fan.
https://goldprice.org/ru/gold-price-per-gram.html
I dont believe it.
“Masks” the placebo handed out to make people feel as though their government was helping them in times of trouble. Masks nothing more than a compliance and control prop.
Au contraire- the masks do exactly what they are designed to do.
The idea of masks is to spread fear and control the population- a symbol of obedience and a public reminder that “something terrible” is out there and all of us are suspects and/or potential victims.
Masks are used as a political weapon disguised as a public health concern- propaganda by policy designed to create the illusion of some dreaded “disease” or to signify that there is a life threatening Pandemic™ that could strike anyone, anywhere at any time.
Mandatory masks during the covid terror campaign were psychological training wheels for coercive vaccination and symbols of obedience utilized for social control.
Mask of the beast
Biblical bollocks
Predictable programming
Planet of numpty
Hidden state child abuse
Anxiety through non compliance
Mask of the beast
No life
Jumping at your shadows
Breathing is living
Where is your ode to joy
Your song your smile
A world of sick notes
Anonymous porno characters
Wandering around as
Brain damaged zombies
In Brownian motion
Presstitutes words are piss
So i am a duck
But not sitting in denial
i laugh and sing
Flying in rebellion
Not in fear
Fear is the heart killer
But in love
Your choice
Your life
Perhaps, except that the Beast never wore a mask
On E-bay for 50 bucks. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tsIAAeSwXgppCQih/s-l500.webp
Mask directives were and keep coming from
dressed as health experts.
Yeah, they know, they know.
So what, masks don’t work and we’re never about helping.
They lie about everything all the time and the goal is to harm and substantially injury as many in as many ways as possible.
We are born into fiction, and it’s all downhill from there.
Santa Claus, religions, the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny, fairy tales, the winning side’s twisted history, novels, movies, corporate sports, lotto, patriotic propaganda, advertising, and so called ‘health’ experts.
Our minds become as malleable as clay.
By all means: enlist for war, work, slave, spend and die, but don’t EVER, EVER question.
Don’t think
Consume
Just do it
It is possible
Swoosh, Victory, Ni-ke
Well said. And most people won’t bother to investigate any alternative information they may be confronted with. They’ll cling to their ‘truths’ no matter what, lest they be considered conspiratorial idiots.
Exactly.
From Green and Fazi ‘The Covid Consensus’ p.110-1:
“In a February 2020 email…. Fauci wrote that ‘[t]he typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material’…. Even the WHO originally stated that ‘the use of a mask alone is insufficient to provide an adequate level of protection’ and that ‘the wide use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not supported by current evidence and carries uncertainties and critical risks’ – including lulling elderly and at-risk people into a false sense of security…. Subsequent studies would later find that universal masking had no statistically significant impact on the spread of SARS-COV-2 and that ‘existing data do not support universal, often improper, face mask use in the general population as a protective measure against Covid-19’. This was indeed the only way to make sense of the reality that had emerged by 2022, where it became clear that US states that had had mask mandates had no materially different outcomes to those which had not”.
Therefore, even if one accepts germ theory and that there is currently a “super-flu”, masks don’t work not according to some crazy covid-denier conspiracy theorist but according to Fauci, the WHO and ‘the Science’ (TM).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YUyx5jgdiPU
Virology is pseudoscience
A list of currently known Infallibles:
1.. The Pope
2.. Virologists
3.. Geneticists
4.. Maggie Thatcher
5.. Donald Trump…
They’re excellent at hiding your identity from surveillance cameras. They also got these multi-colored sweaters that confuse the hell out of the AI for the time being. Get one. You’ll like it.
Mask up and be freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Duh
Indeed. Masks being a major contributor to the rise in shoplifting
Lubricating the lust for Mammon:
https://redfireonline.com/2025/12/13/us-war-on-venezuela-why-now/
You don’t want COVIII? Than have faith / trust in your own millions of years time tested immune system – don’t be scared. Be patient, it needs a few days to find the right molecule. Fever is not bad below 40C, it is a sign that your body is in overdrive to find a solution. Stay home and relax.
If you are above ~ 50 age never let them put you on a ventilator: older bodies can’t survive these contraptions.
There is no covid, there is no “Immune system” as there is nothing to be immune from. Germ theory is a lie and viruses don’t even exist. Get with the truth!!
Slowly, slowly…. Saying at this point that there’s no immune system is just not going to penetrate. Bad enough to say there is no virus. If only everyone would understand that vaccines are a bad idea, then pretty much all would be alright.
Anagram of ventilator:
NOT ART … EVIL
As a follow up to the IMA questioning the moon landings, here is another perspective:
https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/marcus-allen-and-scott-henderson
These blokes are fair dinkum.
I still believe in my government, and there is nothing you can do about it!
BE-LIE-VE
On the antipodean hemisphere , and Bondi Beach.
Its more than likely a false flag event, of course people from time to time do die in false fag events.
Watch as NZ, will now cracks down heavily on any criticism of the genocide – or of Zionist or Jews in general.
Albanese speech being broadcast on the BBC right now – his overall message we’ll protect the Jews no matter what.
Clearly false flag bullshit. You can tell by the wall to wall coverage.
And how swiftly it was made to fit in with Israel/ Gaza.
Link please
The Chinese and Japanese are obedient serfs. Their regimes tell them to jump, and they respond with how high? During SARS the Chinese regime educated its population not to spit everywhere and also got them to wear masks. This was copied from the Japanese where mask wearing started for respiratory illnesses long before. I normally saw East Asians pre-Covid-1984 wearing the standard ill fitting blue surgical mask and that was worn out of politeness if the wearer had a cold, so as not to sneeze or cough over others.
This attitude to masks, although less prevalent, also exists in other East Asian countries especially those with a high Chinese population eg Singapore.
Somehow, it was decided to test the mask wearing culture in the West during the scamdemic. Someone clearly did their homework beforehand, since plenty of retards fell for the obedience test. Brainwashed morons wore the same dirty, cheap Chinese – made from who knows what – piece of platicised garbage day in and out. These things were a health hazard and an environmental disaster when disposed.
Either way, anyone wearing a mask of any type for a long period of time, unless totally brain dead, would notice the sensation of unnatural breathing. Disgusting, unhygienic and bad for the health of the wearer – to be avoided unless absolutely necessary for specific protection against dust, pollen, asbestos etc.
Confucian compliance goes back a long way.
The biggest users of masks are the Chinese, Japanese and East Asians, none of whom are known to waste money on frippery. Their research, dating back 40 years shows that KN95-level masks, correctly fitted, are extremely effective at stopping transmission of infections.
Dunno about that Godfree.
The Asian addiction to Social Media, USian ‘culture’ and gadgetry could be classed as mind frippery.
Your silly nonsense duh and more duh….a proven result of your “oxygen deprivation therapy” obviously.
Effective in some sense. Except that the mask-wearers themselves tend to drop out of the pool of the living. A form of self-sacrifice perhaps?
This 2019 study of 2862 participants showed that both N95 respirators and surgical masks “resulted in no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory confirmed influenza.”
This 2016 meta-analysis found that both randomized controlled trials and observational studies of N95 respirators and surgical masks used by healthcare workers did not show benefit against transmission of acute respiratory infections. It was also found that acute respiratory infection transmission “may have occurred via contamination of provided respiratory protective equipment during storage and reuse of masks and respirators throughout the workday.”
Moreover, for both N95 and surgical masks, it was found that expelled particles from 0.03 to 1 micron were deflected around the edges of each mask, and that there was measurable penetration of particles through the filter of each mask.
Some of those Kardashian clones with their pumped up lips, snow blinding teeth and super taut cheeks and foreheads could do us a favour, and COVER UP!
Welcome to the century of sick vanity.
Well they need to slim down for starters. There’s only so much Photoshop can do
It’s Just A Coincidence !
Some researches claim increases in The Sun’s activity may have had a role
in historically recorded pandemics. Evidence exists that mass ‘flu outbreaks
coincide with increased solar activity…
Recent increased sun-spot activity let to a coronal mass ejection that was
due to hit planet Earth 9 December 2025, which just happened to coincide
with ‘the worst ‘flu epidemic’ since 2021…
…….
https://metatron.substack.com/p/mass-mask-delusion-the-sequel.
Usually a case of less sunshine, more flu. Winter being a major factor in the rise of flu. Vitamin D also playing a vital role
I bet they worked well for the mask-makers and their shareholders.
Masks are useless ? Zorro disagrees, So does The Phantom…
On the other hand Superman, disguised as mild-mannered reporter
Clark Kent believes a pair of glasses works better for him…
Bank robber Jesse James swears by face masks. Says he “wouldnt
rob a bank, without one !” And when not using his whilst bank robbing
he says “they make damn stylish neck ties !”…
AI face recognition apparently is unfazed by such ruses, tomorrow’s bandits will have to think of something cleverer
Ear masks?
Looks like confession of the Cabal tools that those N95 masks are transparent to facial recognition CCTV. So why still propagate the usage: to have visual recognition of who is (non)complaint.
Dont They know flu-seasons coincide with the advent of Winter ?
Masks dont protect against Winter. If the Authorities were so concerned
why dont they ban Winter… And while They’re about it, stop little billy
gates from blocking out The Sun, ’cause if They dont we’ll have to
suffer with flu-like symptoms all year round…**
** Year round flu-like symptoms would be a shot in the arm for little billy’s
vaxx investments…
I am afraid the time has come when lying journalists must be named, their addresses put out on the internet and if they have children, those children must be told that their parent(s) are medical liars, societal vandals and generally unfit to participate in society.
It will highly amusing to see the outrage of those who think they can lie with impunity with no consequences….
I have found that using hand sanitizer and/or washing my hands after shopping, as well as avoiding stores with low ceilings, protects me more than a mask.
How do you know that? The only way to know that is to wear a mask for a certain amount of time while not using hand sanitizers and/or washing your hands after shopping, then not wearing a mask for a period of time while using hand sanitizers and/or washing your hands, then comparing the results. If you get sick with one process and not the other, then you could say that one worked better than the other because with one process you didn’t get sick, but with the other one you did. But what if you didn’t get sick for both?
So, which one did you get sick with? It appears you must have got sick (whatever that means relative to the fake Covid-19 supposed virus) wearing a mask.
Yeh ! Low ceilings help prevent you suffering from hypoxia…
The only way I survived Da’ Covid™ was by purchasing TWO of those safety dots and taking them everywhere I went. Had to put them down with each step- step by step. It was grueling but I wasn’t taking any chances. I saw some people get stranded as they had only one dot. They would collapse right on the spot- game over. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen- oh and Follow the Science™ although I see you already are by wiping out your protective layer of skin by slathering poison on your hands.
Was this the start of the dot-com boom? 🙂
SOS, Maxwell.
Dot, dot, dot then dash, dash, dash _ _ _ _
Suicide is another method of “protection”… worth a shot perhaps?
Are you thinking vaccine shots?
I personally found substituting ketchup for the contents of a hand sanitizer tube particularly helpful. Especially when entering a store that insisted on it before you handled anything
protects you from WHAT, exactly?
bad girls! They cant take it when men wash hands.
I can think of many people I know that I wish would wear multiple masks…
Why are my comments suddenly in a pending status? Free speech website my ass!
The idea that masks protect you – is pushed by the PTB’s MSM to give the public a feeling that they can protect themselves if they wear a mask, when they cannot – its a psychological dupe that the masses buy into – a kind of comfort blanket if you like.
During the Covid scam – around £27 billion of taxpayers cash was syphoned – off on buying shit like the masks – some companies were fast tracked to supply PPE – one being a company that made sweets – another firm sent no PPE – but plenty of mops and mop buckets, the politicians and their corporate buddies made a fortune – the former from kickbacks the latter from contracts – whilst the public got screwed over again and again.
The same happened in the 2008 banking collapse – Too Big to Fail was the Logo – the taxpayer got ripped off big time – with that as well.
“You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.”
— Fezzik to his friend Inigo in The Princess Bride
Masks do quite a lot. They interfere with normal breathing, decrease the necessary oxygen intake, stifle the lungs, create discomfort, make communication difficult, signal compliance to a fraud, and diminish natural immunity. If you’ve already got breathing problems, the mask will make it worse. And if circumstances are “favourable” the mask may shorten your life and even kill you.
And one I forgot: masks make facial expressions unreadable and incubate a feeling of alienation and isolation.
Perfect for Democrats. Be kind and but them one today!
Trump’s absurd, vanity fuelled combover is just another type of mask.
Have you ever seen a picture of Trump’s mother? Look that up if you haven’t, and you’ll see just where that hair came from. If for nothing else, you’ll get a good laugh out of it.
I’m quite sure your whole family tree is a hoot…
Holy shit!
That explains a lot.
I almost feel sorry for the vain jerk.
(I did say ‘almost’).
So is what you consider self-intelligent
not to mention they give people a false sense of security which could lead them to neglect reasonable basic safety practices in situations, unlike the recent mega-hysteria exercises, where an actual health risk exists
They were also useful to cover up the fact that folks in nursing homes and hospitals were being murdered en masse by Covid™ protocols.
The headline should say that they don’t do anything positive, because they certainly cause plenty of harm.
First and most importantly, they cause dangerous imbalances in the O2/CO2 ratio in the bloodstream. Gas exchange is one of the most basic life processes. All the cells of your body need a constant supply of O2 to stay healthy, and a buildup of CO2 can cause a wide variety of symptoms.
They also cause a buildup of bacteria inside the mask that the wearer is then forced to breathe through, leading to conditions like oral thrush.
Their widespread forced use also causes children to suffer developmental deficiencies because they don’t receive the social signals that would be available from the facial expressions of those around. They also serve as a visual signal that promotes constant stress and fear in children and vulnerable adults, leading to a fight-or-flight hormonal reaction.
And finally, there are no long-term studies examining the cumulative effects of all of the above, nor of the inhalation of plastic microfibers. Just picture dryer lint lining your lungs and respiratory passages. Common sense tells you that can’t be s good thing.
I am smoking Kings with filters. Whattabout that?
.
I quit: the Invisible Circle suggested it would be a good idea if I stopped smoking tobacco in the Pipe. So I did. I still pray with it, however.
Me too. I blinded myself by saying a deep clean breath says my lungs could easily take a little smoke, but I forgot to dig one spade further.
The smoke particles goes from the lungs into the blood veins and take their seat on the walls there. When I found out I have been cognitive disso to that one for too long a time, I quit from one day to another, and never smoked since.
Now comes the best part of this non smoker story. I thought I would either have symptoms like a drug addict after tobacco but no.
Then I expected to become a radical anti-smoker but no too. Found out I actually liked the smell when other people smoked, without getting a hang to lit a cigarette myself.
But from time to time, I dream about a pipe and yellow capstan. Thats all.
Anyway, I am sure you also enjoyed the much better breathing clean air in and delicious diet food and more feeling of your senses.
Congratulation and all the best.
Masks were intended to reduce the spread of droplet borne infection — they don’t stop you from catching anything but they help prevent spreading whatever respiratory infection you’ve got to others. That’s all. For something like ‘flu you likely shouldn’t be out and about when you’re able to transmit the virus (its different from Covid where the infection took several days to produce symptoms).
The only people that seem to regularly use the things are Asians** (Japanese and some Chinese) and then I get the impression they’re more concerned about air pollution than infection. Even so they’re nothing like as common as you’d think — we were milling around on the Tokyo metro a month or so back, for example, and masks were very much the exception than the rule.
(**and, of course, ICE — our “Homeland Defenders”.)
Not to get drawn into a wasteful debate on an old topic, but I don’t believe to this day there is any scientific data to back this notion up of face-coverings protecting against the spreading of respiratory infections.
So that we’re not repeating ourselves, can we be good enough to find some scientific data on face-coverings working and refer to this in future? There was no affirmative data available in 2020, when masking protocols came in, therefore, whereas it might be a tad suspicious if it’s conveniently turned up since, it’s still only fair to ask!
Without respectable data to back up claims about face-coverings, IF we still assert they are effective, we’re resorting to justification far less scientific, medical or logical than people like to admit.
I mean, maybe wearing face-coverings reinforces our faith in the priests and priestesses of western medicine, maybe this public display of fealty has tangible, measurable benefits to average population health? I could buy that. Unfortunately this wouldn’t be a mechanism western medicine itself would be prepared to acknowledge or accept lol. This lack of tangible scientific evidence coupled with faith-based reasoning created a real problem in 2021, causing masses of cognitive dissonance and ejecting many people (like us) from the narrative entirely.
Let’s tread carefully rehashing these old debates. Perhaps we could instead adopt a live and let live attitude. Tolerance and acceptance of each other is perhaps the most powerful weapon we have at our disposal, why so much money and effort is poured into divide and rule.
A2
We seem to be awash in studies these days — a quick Google search using the keywords “Surgical Mask Reducing Droplet Size” produces a lot of results. The couple of papers I scanned were quite sanguine about mask efficacy, it produces measurable results but it is not a magic cure by any means. What the papers did talk about included a mention of persistence — Covid virus was quite persistent, it remaining active for up to three days on many surfaces (which suggests to me that personal and environmental cleanliness is likely to be more important than the ‘face diaper’ that people here so dislike).
A lot of Covid research didn’t bear any results until after 2020 because it just takes time to do authentic research and prepare/review a paper for publication. By that time the issue had become thoroughly politicized here in the US, with it being presented as the usual” two sides” debate headlined by President Trump and Dr. Fauci. It shouldn’t have been like this but if you recall the politics of the situation first dictated that it was problem caused by cities and their governments, then it morphed into Chinese weapons research, then Ivermectin and really only started to stabilize when Trump got infected and had to be hospitalized.
Bored journalists seem to be hyping up this year’s flu strain as another apocalypse. Relatively few seem to have mentioned the norovirus — stomach bug — that’s been doing the rounds even though the effects of it are apparently quite spectacular.
I must admit, I find your stubborn refusal to address certain points coupled with your dogged insistence that fear of Covid must be inserted into our lives as a new universal constant a little bit triggering…
However, I must practice what I preach, and God love you. Maybe wearing ‘face diapers’ really did help hold the scourge back, even if just a bit. In which case, perhaps we shouldn’t disrespect them with such unflattering nomenclature? It could come across a little obsequious and/or disingenuous to do that.
A2
No way, Sam, that even defies ‘logic.’Things that don’t work, don’t work, PERIOD!
And are often harmful to severely harmful beside.
There’s no such thing as a spreading respiratory infection.
I think maybe you are missing his point. His point is that masks reduce the spread of droplets. This is something that common sense will show you. Sneeze with a mask off and sneeze with a mask on. Obviously, with the mask off, the droplets coming out of your mouth and nose will go further than with the mask on. The mask blocks the explosiveness of the sneeze. This is not to say that virions don’t go through the mask. They do. Of course. This is not to say that sneeze droplets don’t fly about with the mask on. They do. They just don’t travel as far.
Listen. I believe that masks don’t work. I believe that masks are silly and unhealthy.
But this all or nothing at all viewpoint I find troubling. Surely you can admit that a mask cuts back on the explosiveness of a sneeze. I believe this is an experiment anybody could perform. Stand about 5 feet from the sneezer. Have him sneeze with and without a mask. I believe you will find that you will feel the air movement from the sneeze without the mask on your face if its aimed right, but you will not feel the masked sneeze air movement.
I meant “without the mask on his face”.
Ah, droplets- that old chestnut.
Discussions like the one you are having are most commonly found in the asylum where the inmates are often found snatching at imaginary flies.
See. Typical. A substanceless sneer is all one gets from you people. Maybe cause you are wrong and you know you are.
None of the afore-mentioned studies are valid as they fail to address the efficacy of masks to elevate distress and alarm among a gullible population.
Besides, why is the onus always on the criminals to wear masks…?
Also they trapping of virus, bacteria and reduced oxygen uptake.
“Reduced oxygen uptake” implies inhibited oxygen exchange contaminated by carbon dioxide and moisture which, as you’ve pointed out, may be further contaminated by bacteria and viral particles.
Elevated levels of distress and alarm can result in bacterial infection of lungs…
The impacts of anxiety and distress on human health, both psychological and physical, have been widely studied and universally acknowledged. Its worthwhile to also consider the ancillary, and consequential, impacts of sustained anxiety – notably the proclivity of individuals to self-medicate using widely-available and addictive narcotics such as alcohol, nicotine, cannabis and the whole range of recreational narcotics, legal or otherwise.
I expect there’s a whole chapter on sustained/controlled “anxiety” in your local intelligence agency’s torture manual.
A cool point, the spiritual/psychological disarray should not be neglected. It is positively harmful all by itself and the lack of balance thus engendered gives rise to many ‘symptoms’ which can then be misinterpreted.
Media hyped up the masks.?
I have seen surge of the face nappie.
Why do fat people always seem to wear them?
There is a direct correlation to avoidable obesity and stupidity…
And people wonder why the ‘no-virus’ argument matters. Here we are. Again.
but is it true?….I wish it were.
IT IS FUCKING TRUE!!!
There is no argument as far as I am concerned
Yes they do. They raise the amount of CO2 you are rebreathing so that specialised CO2 alarms go off in about a minute. Don’t bother trying to google it.
No matter what they say I saw several of the videos back in the day.
Safe and effective, huh?